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Melissa Errico

On her way home from a vocal lesson, the Billions actress saw two men struggling to lift another from the subway tracks when she sprung into action. “I could see the two men giving up,” she says. “They were letting him go.”

Errico, a mother of three, knew she had to act quickly, “I came running over. I was like, ‘You can’t lift him? We got this.’ ” That’s when she grabbed the man from under the arms, counted to three, and hoisted him from the tracks.

Though the man suffered from a broken foot and cuts to his arms, he will reportedly make a full recovery thanks to the trio.

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Tom Holland

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The good deed: Saving a young fan from a crushing crowd

While signing autographs in New York in June 2019, Holland came to the defense of a girl who began suffering from a panic attack due to the aggressive autograph hunters who were shoving their way to the front of the crowd.

The incident was captured on video shared from the girl’s Twitter account, in which Holland can be heard saying, “It’s okay, I got you,” and, “I’m gonna throw all your s— on the floor if you keep pushing that girl.” He later did just that, leaving behind the photos, pens and papers of autograph seekers who weren’t complying with his request.

In a series of tweets, the girl, only identified from her Twitter account as @NamelessCass, detailed the experience and thanked the star.

“if anyone can just go ahead and tell Tom thank you and I hope to actually meet him and thank him someday it would be much appreciated lmfao,” she added.

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Danny DeVito

On a September 2018 visit to The Talk, DeVito recalled a day of filming Romancing the Stone in Mexico with Douglas in the 1980s.

“There was this guy who had a truck with a cage on it and inside the pickup truck, in the bed of the truck, were snakes,” DeVito said.

“But Michael, he’s being the hot shot, Mikey D.,” he said. “And the guy’s got a snake on his arm and all the kids are coming around. And Michael grabs the snake. I’m going, ‘Michael, don’t touch the snake! That’s a snake, man. That snake could bite you, man.’ ” And it did — right on the hand.

“I always heard the best thing to do is suck the poison out, right away, so I did,” DeVito said. “I grabbed his hand and I’m spitting all over the place, and I say, ‘Boy, it’s a good thing this didn’t bite you on the balls man — you would be a dead man.’ ”

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Meryl Streep & Cher

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The good deed: Saving a woman from an attacker

The longtime friends were going on an ice cream run in New York City when they encountered an in-progress assault. “We walk down the street and we hear screaming,” Cher recalled on The Late Late Show with James Corden. “We come around the corner and this gigantic man is ripping the clothes off of this girl. And Meryl starts screaming, and I start screaming, and we run towards this gigantic man and he turns and starts running towards us. Just out of — I don’t know, we split, and he ran through us. We went up to the girl and all of her clothes were torn and she was clutching her bag. So we’re putting her together and trying to get her to look a little bit like she hasn’t just been ravished, and she looks at us, and she goes, ‘Oh, my God, I’ve been saved by Meryl Streep and Cher!'”

Streep previously mentioned the incident while speaking at the Committee to Protect Journalists awards in 2017. “Someone else was being abused and I just went completely nuts and went after this man. Ask Cher — she was there. And the thug ran away, it was a miracle,” she said.

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Benedict Cumberbatch

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The good deed: Saving a cyclist from muggers

According to London Uber driver Manuel Dias, Cumberbatch and his wife, Sophie Hunter, were riding in his car when they came upon a delivery cyclist being attacked by four men. Dias told The Sun that the Sherlock star jumped out of the car to yell at the attackers before physically engaging with them. “I had hold of one lad and Benedict another. He seemed to know exactly what he was doing. He was very brave. He did most of it, to be honest,” Dias said. “They tried to hit him, but he defended himself and pushed them away. He wasn’t injured. Then I think they also recognized it was Benedict and ran away … If he hadn’t stepped in, the cyclist could have been seriously injured. He asked the rider how he was and when he said, ‘I’m okay,’ Benedict just hugged him.”

Police didn’t confirm the names of anyone involved in the incident, but their report states that a delivery person was attacked, no arrests were made and the victim did not go to the hospital. “I did it out of, well, I had to, you know,” the actor told The Sun about taking action. Meanwhile, Deliveroo, the company that employs the victim, showed their appreciation for Cumberbatch on Twitter.

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Tom Holland

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The good deed: Taking care of a lost dog and finding its owner

Holland really is the friendly neighborhood … actor. “Walking around Kingston and we found this dog who seems to have been stray for the last few days. If it is your dog, please let us know. We’re going to take him to the vet to make sure he’s all okay,” the Spider-Man: Homecoming star said in a video posted to his Instagram Story. He also shared a video of the dog happily sniffing a bag of food as they waited in the vet office. In his last update on the pup, Holland revealed that the vet located a microchip and was able to contact the owners. The dog had been wandering around after getting out of a gate in his family’s yard.

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Ken Jeong

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The good deed: Jumping off stage to help an audience member who was having a seizure

The doctor-turned-actor was just beginning his May 2018 stand-up show in Phoenix when a woman sitting in the third row reportedly suffered a seizure. According to witnesses, at first Jeong thought the commotion was being caused by a heckler. “He couldn’t see what was going on with the lights,” audience member Heather Holmberg explained to USA Today. “He was playing with them from the stage for a second, and it was like, ‘No, no, no. We need you!’ He realized there was an issue, and he came over. It was a moment where time stands still. Someone was having a crisis. There was a hush over the room.” The actor assisted the woman until an ambulance arrived, and then he resumed performing.

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John Krasinski

The A Quiet Place actor spent six months in the Central American country after he graduated high school.

“One of the places I went was this amazing beach called Manuel Antonio that I didn’t realize had an insane riptide,” he explained to Playboy. “While I was swimming there — this is a story I’ve never told anybody — this Costa Rican girl and an American guy were swimming right next to me, and we were knee-deep. I went underwater for a second, and when I came back up he was screaming at the top of his lungs. Literally in three seconds the girl had been swept 150 yards out.”

Fortunately, Krasinski’s mother was a lifeguard and had taught him to swim from a very early age. “In that moment, I didn’t ask anyone. There was no one to help me. I just went out and tried to save her,” he said.

The incident proved to be life altering. “Granted, not everybody needs to have life-or-death experiences, but that changed my entire life. All of a sudden I grew up,” he said.

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Luke Wilson

Wilson and pro golfer Bill Haas were both involved in a fatal crash in February 2018, and while the actor walked away from the crash, Haas was injured and the driver of the Ferrari the golfer was traveling in was killed.

Police said the Ferrari was “traveling at a high-rated speed” when its driver lost control and hitting multiple vehicles before smashing into a light pole. The Toyota SUV Wilson was driving was struck by the Ferrari but the actor was not injured. As soon as the Ferrari came to a stop, Wilson spring into action, with a witness at the scene calling the star a hero.

Sean Heirigs told PEOPLE he helped Wilson get an unidentified 50-year-old woman who was trapped in her SUV which had flipped during the collision. The woman’s leg was pinned in the twisted vehicle.

“At one point, [Wilson] was like, ‘Let’s get her out of here, it smells like smoke,’” recalled Heirigs. “You don’t know if it’s going to blow up or not. So, I reached in through a window to calm her down. Luke went around the back, to the trunk of the car. We pried it open, she was able to unbuckle herself, and Luke started to pull her out from the back. We then both carried her to the curb.”

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Davey Boy Smith Jr.

The good deed: The former WWE wrestler prevented a suicide

The wrestler (née Harry Smith) recounted his harrowing tale on Facebook. “When driving up 16th Avenue past bowness road in Calgary I saw a girl crying and hanging off the bridge with someone trying to talk to her. I stopped and jumped the barricade and tried talking to the girl,” he wrote. “She was crying and an emotional mess and threatening to jump if I got closer. She started to slide and want to go more as I grabbed a hold her. Luckily my years of grappling and self defense I knew how to grab her HARD and how to pull her up from hanging off and jumping.” The woman told Smith that she had a gun, but the former athlete didn’t back down: “I told her ‘Miss your not going to move unless I want you to, I’m an expert grappler and your [sic] not going to shoot me. We will get you help life is a precious thing and I’m here to help to help you.'”

Authorities confirmed Smith’s account and that the woman was taken to a hospital for a mental health evaluation. “For me saving someone’s life is the greatest accomplishment I’ve ever made, and meant more than winning any championships in Wrestling,” the star wrote in a followup post. “People should never be afraid to ask for help if they need it. And you should never refuse a hand to help somebody in need. Spend time with people that really care about you and love you.”

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Daniel Radcliffe

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The good deed: The actor comforted a victim who had been slashed in the face by muggers

The former Harry Potter star was walking in west London when thieves slashed a tourist’s face and tried to steal his bag. “The victim — a man aged in his 50s — was walking in the road when two people riding a moped snatched his bag before riding off. The victim suffered a cut to the face during the incident,” a police statement said of the attack. Radcliffe and other pedestrians came to the aid of the victim. Former police officer David Videcette told The Evening Standard that he witnessed the actor “comforting the tourist,” adding, “It was a bit of the surreal moment, I said ‘you’re Daniel Radcliffe.’ and he replied, ‘I am.’ He was a really nice bloke, a lot of stars wouldn’t have stopped to help.”

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Justin Timberlake

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The good deed: The singer consoled a woman after she was hit by a golf ball during a celebrity tournament

At the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship in July 2017, a golfer in Timberlake’s group accidentally sent a tee shot into the crowd of spectators, striking anunidentified woman. In footage from the incident, the star can be seen walking over to console the woman, helping her to her feet and topping it off with a high five.

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Michael Keaton

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The good deed: Keaton used the Heimlich maneuver to save his friend from choking

On a June 2017 Jimmy Kimmel Live appearance, Keaton recalled saving his friend’s life. “A very good friend of mine, [director] Dennis Dugan actually, we were hanging out at his house and everyone had gone home after this party,” he explained. “And all of a sudden I look at him and he’s really red in the face, and then he’s kind of getting a shade of blue that was concerning. And he very calmly kinda [pointed at his neck] … And I remember seeing somewhere or someone explaining what the Heimlich maneuver was. So I got behind him and I thought, ‘Man, I hope this works.’ And I did it really hard, because you’re supposed to. And this thing just shot across the room.”

According to the actor, he and Dugan didn’t even discuss the harrowing incident until the next morning. “About 11:30 he calls me and he goes, ‘Hey, man, do you remember last night?’ … That’s when I went, ‘I saved a guy’s life last night.’ ”

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Tom Hardy

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The good deed: The actor allegedly chased down and detained a moped thief

According to The Sun, Hardy happened to witness two suspects fleeing after crashing a stolen moped in London. The outlet reported that he pursued one alleged thief on foot, running through gardens and across a building before catching him and patting him down for weapons. In a statement, police confirmed that a member of the public had detained one of the two male teenagers who were arrested on suspicion of theft following a collision, but did not reveal whether Hardy was the good samaritan in question. “Two 16-year-old boys immediately made off from the scene,” the statement read, with officials noting that “the rider of the motorcycle was detained by a member of the public.”

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Matthew Underwood

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The good deed: The Zoey 101 alum saved a 4-month-old baby boy from a serious car accident

Underwood witnessed a Port St. Lucie, Florida vehicle fail to stop at a stop sign, swerve across six lanes, and crash into a tree. While his brother called 911, the actor ran over to the car where he found two unconscious adults and an infant in the back seat. “I heard a baby cry and that’s when I immediately ran around the other side of the car and looked for the baby,” Underwood explained to WPTV.com. According to a press release, “[Underwood] removed the infant boy and placed him next to the officer on scene.” Driver Jessica Ruth Hand, who was found with a syringe in her arm, was arrested for child neglect and possession of drug paraphernalia. Passenger John Jacob Rodriguez was arrested for child neglect, possession of controlled substance without prescription, possession of drug paraphernalia and violation of probation warrant. The child was turned over to a family member. “I hope they can get rehabilitated,” Underwood told WPTV of Hand and Rodriguez. “I hope they can wake up and want their child back so much, want their life together, that they’ll get clean.”

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David Beckham

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The good deed: On a cold London day, the former Sexiest Man Alive brought an injured elderly patient and the paramedic attending to him hot cups of coffee and tea

London’s Cycle Response Unit senior paramedic Catherine Maynard was keeping an elderly man who had fallen in the street warm while waiting for an ambulance when the soccer star appeared. “Although I was keeping [the patient] warm it was very cold outside,” Maynard said in a London Ambulance Service press release. “All of a sudden, I looked up and saw someone who looked like David Beckham walking past us. He said ‘Hello’ and got in his car. I said to the man I was treating, ‘I think that was David Beckham.’ Ten minutes later, he came back with a cup of coffee for me and a tea for the patient.” The patient was taken to an urgent care center and treated for minor injuries. After the man was safe in the hands of the medical team, the handsome hero even took the time to take a photo with Maynard. “It was awful cycling around in the cold today and I couldn’t believe it when he came back with some hot drinks – I was so chuffed,” said Maynard.

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Prince Harry

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The good deed: The royal rushed to the rescue of a woman whose wheelchair was knocked over by a strong gust of wind

Prince Harry was chatting with Anna Pollock, an RAF medic, at the trials for the Invictus Games when a strong gust of wind blew and knocked her over and onto the track. The prince sprang into action, helping right the cyclist – and, in true Harry fashion, he made sure to crack a few jokes to lighten the mood along the way.

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Jamie Foxx

Foxx rushed to the rescue when a man crashed his car outside of the star’s Hidden Valley, California, home. The driver lost control of his vehicle, skidded off the road and flipped his car, causing it to burst into flames. Thankfully, Foxx was there to call 911 and pull the still-buckled in man out of the burning vehicle. Though the driver suffered burns and was taken to a hospital, he escaped with his life thanks to the quick-acting Foxx.

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Blake Shelton

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The good deed: Rescued four men from a mud hole in Oklahoma

While out for a drive, The Voice coach came across a group of men who’d been stranded near the Oklahoma River for two hours. Shelton first attempted to pull them out of the mud hole they’d fallen into by himself; when that failed, the country star successfully used his tractor. “If it wasn’t for Blake, I would have been out there for countless hours,” rescuee Bryar Blanton told E!. “And yeah I would say he is a hero.”

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Orlando Bloom

While celebrating Father’s Day 2015 with 4-year-old son Flynn in Malibu, California, Bloom assisted other bystanders in towing the broken-down wave runner (and its passenger) out of the water and onto the beach.

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Miles Teller

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The good deed: Escorted pregnant woman and her toddler from the ocean

The Divergent star was able to put his action-movie training to good use when he guided a pregnant woman and her child out of the water at a Miami beach in May 2015, after the woman reportedly saw a shark lurking nearby.

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Heidi Klum

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The good deed: Saved her son and nannies from drowning

It was trouble in paradise for Klum, who proved she was much more than a pretty face in a bikini when her oldest son Henry and two nannies were sucked into a riptide on their March 2013 Hawaiian vacation. “Of course, as a mother, I was very scared for my child and everyone else in the water,” she said in a statement after her lifeguard-like beach rescue. “We were able to get everyone out safely.”

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Jennifer Lawrence

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The good deed: Helped woman passed out in the grass

Katniss Everdeen to the rescue! Lawrence put her Hunger Games-earned instincts to the test when she found a young girl collapsed in front of her Santa Monica, California, building during a June 2012 walk. As she went to help the person, another bystander called 911.

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Ryan Gosling

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The good deed: Saved a woman from oncoming traffic

New York City has become a safer (and hotter) metropolis since Ryan Gosling began patrolling the streets – just ask would-be traffic victim Laurie Penny, a British journalist who looked the wrong way (because Britons drive on the left side of the road) while crossing Sixth Avenue. “I literally, LITERALLY just got saved from a car by Ryan Gosling. That actually just happened,” Penny wrote in April 2012, setting off a Twitter frenzy.

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Kate Winslet

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The good deed: Carried tycoon Richard Branson’s mother out of a fire

The Oscar winner‘s most noteworthy performance to date may be her heroic deed in August 2011, when she saved the life of the 90-year-old mother of Richard Branson when the British tycoon’s $70 million British Virgin Islands home caught fire with 20 people inside. “No I didn’t save her life,” the modest star claimed. “I carried her down the stairs is the truth of it.”

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T.I.

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The good deed: Talked a suicidal man off a ledge

In 2010, T.I. talked a suicidal man out of jumping off the top of a 22-story Atlanta building. “Something in my heart just said, ‘You need to help,'” the rapper told PEOPLE after hearing about the man on the local radio station. T.I. videotaped a message to the distraught man, saying, “Nothing is that bad. Nothing in life is worth taking your life. I’m here to help you. Please come down to talk to me.” The man came down and had a “heart to heart” with the artist.

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Zoë Saldana

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The good deed: Aided a car accident victim

In January 2012, Zoë Saldanarushed to the aid of an elderly woman who’d been injured in a car accident in Culver City, California. The actress called 911 and stayed with the victim until the ambulance came. “Zoë witnessed the car accident, and was very quick to help,” says an onlooker.

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Tom Cruise

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The good deed: Rescued five people stranded in the Mediterranean

There is no Mission: Impossible for Ethan Hunt or for Tom Cruise, for that matter. The actor has had a long history of coming to the aid of innocent bystanders, but one of the most notable incidents was in the Mediterranean in 1996, when he ordered the crew of his yacht to pick up five people in a drifting raft who had to abandon their own burning sailboat.

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Demi Moore

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The good deed: Used Twitter to help suicidal followers
Demi Moore used the power of Twitter to save the life of a potential suicide victim – twice. In the first instance, in 2009, she called cops in San Jose, California, to help a 48-year-old woman who Tweeted that she planned to end her life. The second time, in 2010, she and Nia Vardalos separately called local authorities when a young man threatened via Tweet to hang himself.

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Garth Brooks

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The good deed: Saved two boys from an Oklahoma wildfire

He’s sung about “Standing Outside the Fire,” but country star Garth Brooks actually went inside the flames of a raging, 600-acre Oklahoma wildfire in 2000 to save two boys and a neighboring family from the oncoming blaze, ferrying them to safety in his pickup truck. One of his evacuees reportedly told the 14- and 10-year-old brothers afterwards, “You just got saved by Garth Brooks.”

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

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The good deed: Rescued a drowning man

While vacationing with his family in Hawaii in 2004, then-California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger noticed a man 300 or 400 yards offshore struggling not to drown. The Terminator star dove into the waves and pulled the cramping swimmer back to shore with the aid of a boogie board. “I told him to relax a little because he was so out of shape,” the former Mr. Universe later recounted at a news conference.

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Sean Penn

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The good deed: Rescued Hurricane Katrina victims

When the activist actor heard about the plight of tens of thousands of stranded New Orleans residents after Hurricane Katrina struck in September 2005, Sean Penn sprung into action, speeding down to the Crescent City and personally helping rescue an estimated 40 people stuck on roofs amid the floodwaters.

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Vin Diesel

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The good deed: Pulled a family out a a burning car

In what would defy the audience’s disbelief if it happened on the big screen, a motorcycle-riding Vin Diesel spotted a car crash in front of him in Hollywood in 2002, and then ran over to extricate the family – which included young children – before the car reportedly went up in flames.

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Ryan Gosling

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The good deed: Broke up a fight

Yep, Ryan Gosling to the rescue again! In August 2011, Boss Gos intervened when a New York tussle over an allegedly stolen street painting threatened to turn violent. Stepping in, he reportedly calmed everyone down and shelled out $20 of his own money to settle the dispute.